Switching between English, German, Hindi and Tibetan, is a tough job, if it is cold outside and even colder inside the building, where the Airjaldi-Summit in Dharamsala, North India, started today. A very diverse crowd of wifi-admirers has gathered here, to start the Next Wave: internetaccess through wireless, self designed connections. “DIY – do it [...]
“Mission
With the understanding that wireless access can and has the potential to significantly reduce the cost and increase the ease to share resources and access to the Internet, the Bay Area Wireless Users Group”
BAWUG – About
October, 2003
“People need to not only download our content, but to upload content to us,” I.A. founder Brewster Kahle says. And given that current networks, with their slow upload speeds, make this a difficult task, he decided to build his own network.
Called SFLan, Kahle’s community wireless network is a “distributed network,” which means anybody using [...]
In an interview with The Chronicle, Chris Sacca, who leads Google’s special projects, voiced frustration with what he called the city’s slow negotiating style. Sacca said that talks to come up with a final contract have advanced little since they started and that officials have made unreasonable demands, including a request for free computers and [...]